Bodegas Ponce Manchuela PF Viñas Viejas Bobal 2021

	From ungrafted, more than 85 years old sticks
	Pure red fruit, refined minerality and subtle oak
	Delicious with white meat or poultry

A delicious boba

Elegant, juicy red wine with a pure olfactory expression of raspberry, red cherry, bay leaf, mint and toast. Wonderfully mouth-filling and seductive in taste with red fruit, an invigorating freshness and supple tannin. The finish is persistent with nuances of black olive and oak. Nice to drink like this. Also delicious with stir-fried dishes with veal, coq au vin or soft cheeses.

Spanish wine to give a party

PF is a breathtakingly beautiful prestige cuvée from Manchuela pioneer and Bobal expert Juan Antonio Ponce from one of his favorite vineyards. It is planted with bobal sticks that are more than 85 years old. Because they predate the phylloxera plague (pre-phylloxera), they are not grafted onto American rootstocks (pie franco). That is not only a rarity, but also produces a wine with special depth and finesse.

Juan Antonio farms his vineyards biodynamically. The vines in PF are planted on sandy soils – precisely the reason they survived the phylloxera infestation, because the grape aphid (which eats the roots of the plants) does not thrive well in sand. Picking is done by Juan Antonio, in plots Lincha, Gallo and Olivares.

Once harvested, the grapes ferment on the bunches, using the grape's own yeasts. The first gives a refined structure, the second contributes to optimal terroir expression. After ten months of aging in large French oak barrels, the PF is bottled without clarification and unfiltered to lose none of its authentic character.

The result is truly astonishing: what finesse, subtlety and complexity! With an alcohol content of only 13% you would hardly believe that it comes from hot and southern Spain. Juan Antonio only makes 9000 bottles of PF, so don't miss your chance to discover this wonderful wine. And the name? It kills no less than three birds with one stone: Pre-Fylloxera, Pie Franco and Ponce Familiar. A direct hit, in every way.